Freight-car and the like.



J. BRYAN.

FREIGHT CAR AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED DEO.1.1909.

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FREIGHT-CAR AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Ifatent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1910.

Application filed December 1, 1909. Serial No. 530,719.

To all whom it may concern: Be it-known that I, JOHN BRYAN, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Yellow Sprin in the county of Greene andState of bio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFreight-Cars and the Like, of which the following is a specification,referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to freightcars and the like, and the object ofthe invention is to provide means foreliminating the long deays incidentto the loading and unloading of freight cars.

a To this end it is a further object of the invention to 1provide thecar pro er, 2'. a, the

trucks and t e parts immediate y connected thereto, with a removableload 'container which can be attached to and detached from said car,thereby enabling the car to remain continuously in service; and further,to provide means for removing the containers from the cars and replacingthe same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation, partly insection, showing a car equipped with my invention and means for removingthe container; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of such a car; Fi 3 is a viewof such a car showing modifie mechanism for removing the container fromthe car; Figs. 4.- and 5 are other modifications of the means forremoving and replacin the container; and Fig. 6 illustrates a mo ifiedform of the container.

In these drawings I have illustrated one embodiment ofmy invention andhave shown the same as applied to a-flat car of ordinary constructioncomprising the usual trucks 1 and a flat body portion 2. It will beunderstood that the term car or car proper-as herein used is intended torefer to the trucks and such parts as are permanently connected thereto,including a suitable su porting member which may be either the bo y-of aflat car or any suitable supporting frame. In the form shown inFlg.

1 a container 3 is mounted directly upon the body ortion 2 of a flat carand is of a sha e and to t at' of the ordinary coal car. tainer hasportions extending beyond the opposite sides of the car body 2, and, inthe resent instance, the floor of the container 18 of greater width thanthe width of the car body, thus causin its edges-toextend beyond thecorrespon ing edges of the-car size corresponding substantially Thiscon-- body, as shown at 4. Any suitable means may be provided forsecuring the container in position upon the car. In the presentinstance, I have'shown bolts 5 ivotally connected to the car body and aapted to extendthrough openings in the outwardly extending edges of thecontainer, and thus securely clamp the latter in position.Suitable'mechanism is provided for lifting the container from the car topermit the car to bewithdrawn, and then sup orting the contalner in aposition tojbe un oaded. In the present instance I have shown thismocha-x nism as comprising two platforms 6 permanently arranged onopposite sides, of the track, upon which the car rests, and arrangedclose to the edges of the car so as to cause portions thereof to extendbeneath the outwardly extending portions. 4 of thecontainer. Theselatforms are vertically movable, and, to thls end, are shown in Fig.

1 as mounted uponhydraulic jacks 7. 'The jacks for the two platforms areconnected to a common source of supply and are con trolled from a commonpolnt, as shown at 8. Consequently, the platforms on the opposite sidesof the car will be raised and lowered in-unison. After the container hasbeen elevated and-the car withdrawn, the jacks maybe adjusted tosupportfthe container in that osition which will best facilitate theunloading or loading thereof. After the container is loaded or unloaded,as the case may he, and is ready for removal, the hoisting mechanismsare actuated and the container again elevated to permit the cars to beplaced beneath the same and then lowered to place the container on thecar. During the time that the container is being loaded or unloaded thecar proper is released therefrom and may be utilized for other hauling,and, in this manner, the cars maybe kept in constant use, therebygreatly increasing the amount of hauling which may be accomplished witha given number of cars.

Inasmuch as the containers themselves are comparatively inexpensive toconstruct a large number of the same can be kept on hand and may bestored,-when not in use, in such a manner as to enable them to be'quickly placed in service. The construction of the containers is suchas to enable them to be stored in a much more compact manner than ispossible with railway cars as now' constructed, and, by the use ofoverhead elevating mechanism, the containers or lacing manner. In Figraising an can be stored without the use of trackage by stacking thesame at the side of the track them in any desired positions.

, the hoisting mechanism for lowering the containers may beofany'suitable character, and, in Fig. 3 of the drawings, I have shownthe platforms 6 as mounted on jacks 9, of the rack and-pinbviousl iontype, which may be connected one to the other and operated in unison inany suitable I have shown themovable portion 10 of the jacks asextending 1 through suitable openings 11 in a stationary platform 12 anden portions of the containers. As here shown there are three of thesejacks, but, obviously, the number can be. varied, to suit existingconditions. I

It may also be desirable to raise and lower the containers b means of anoverhead mechanism, and have illustrated in Fig. 4 how this can beaccomplished by means of a traveling crane, such as is commonly used inrailway work, and which, as here shown, comprlses a frame 13 of invertedU-shape havlng at its lower ends rollers 14 which ging the projectingtravel on rails 15 arranged parallel with place them on the cars,

. method of handling containers,

4 and on opposite sides of two or more tracks.

The up er or horizontal portion 16 of this frame orins a track on whichis mounted hoistin mechanism 17 of any suitable character. y use of suchhoisting mechanism the containers cannot only be raised and lowered toremove the same from and rebut they may also lifted from one track toanother or one container may be lifted over another. This valuable whenit. is desired to remove one of several contamers,

merely lifting the "container from its POSI- tion and carrying the sameeither over the the track on which thesame laterally mechanisms ,forraising and lowering the containers it is obvious that this can be.accom lished in many waysother th 11 those here s own, but theseseveral methods serve to illustrate the manner in which the containersare used. Further, while I have N here shown the containers as adaptedfor use on an ordinary flat car,'it will beobvious that they can bemounted upon any suitable supporting frame and secured thereto in anysuitable manner.

As a further modification of the invention I have shown, in Fig. 6, anarrangement whereby a series of containers can be mounted upon one car,this being accomplished, in the present instance, by constructing theloaded into the containers at the point of several forms of the are forthe cars is especially arranged above asingle track, without disturbingthe other this being accomplished by ;the latter has container after themanner of a wagon-bed, which may be loadedat a point of "supply,

hauledto thetrack and placed bodily upon the car, the wheels being, inthe present instance, removed to enable the containers to be placedfirmly upon the car'body. When the car has reached-its destination thesecontain'ers are removed bodily and delivered to the point ofconsumption. In this manner the material is handled but twice, z. ;e.,it is supply and unloaded at the point of consumption and the severalintermediate han- 'dlings are eliminated, 'It will be obvious that thecharacter, size and arrangement. of these containers may be modified toadaptthe same to the material to be handled and to other conditions. 5

The operation and utilityof the invention will be readily understood and.appreciated from the foregoing description and I wish .it to be furtherunderstood that the invention herein shown urposes of illustration only.There: fore, I o not wish 'to be understood as limiting myself to thedetails of construction shown and described, for obvious modificationswill occur to a person skilled in'the art.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 7 1. The combination, with a track, atruck adapted to travel on said track, a supporting member, and acontainer; removably mounted on said supportin member, of 100 means,-permanently arrange with respect to said track, to lift said containerto permit the withdrawal of saidtruck and said supporting member and tosupportsaid contamerafter said truck and sald supporting memberhave beenwithdrawn. 2. The combination, with a track, a truck adapted to travelon said track, asupporting member, and a' container'mounted 'on saisupporting member and having outwardly extending portions, of liftingjacks, permanently arranged on each side of said track to engage theoutwardl extending portions of sald container, an means for actuatingsaidlifting jacks in unison.

3. The combination, with a track, a truck, and a removable containermo'unted on said truck, of loading platforms ermanently arranged onopposite sides of said track and forming a sugport for said containerwhen can removed from said truck.

4. The combination, with a track, a truck, and a container removablymounted on said truck, of a loading platform arranged on one side ofsaid track and forming a support for the'corres onding side ofsaid-contalner when the latter has been removed from said truck, andmeansjfor supporting the opposite side. of said container. a

5. The combination, with trucks, a supporting member, and a containerremovably said container, and-means for raising and mounted on saidsupporting member and lowering said platforms. 10 having portionsextending outward beyond In testimony whereof, I aflix my signatheopposite sides of said supporting memture in presence of two witnesses.

ber, of permanently arranged platforms JOHN BRYAN. spaced apart toreceive said trucks between Witnesses: them and having portions adaptedto extend J. FRED ANDERSON,

beneath the outwardly extendlng portions of HARRIET L. HAMMAKER.

